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Modern Dances - One-Step / Hesitation / Tango (Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle, Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden NJ, 1914)
Publisher: Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, New Jersey, 1914. Vernon Castle's announcement March 2, 1914 endorsing Victrola and Victor Records as the exclusive recordings used at Castle House (NYC). 32-page primer with photographs by Hill's Studio (NY) of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle dancing 13 named figures: ONE-STEP (Castle Walk; Pony Step; Reverse Dip Step; Get-Over Step; Cross Eight Swing); HESITATION WALTZ (basic Hesitation; Side Hesitation; Skating Dip Step; Hesitation Balance with Dip; Hesitation Walking Dip and Reverse); TANGO (Cortez Step; Seven Step; Media de Luna). Closes with Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Castle's Suggestions For Correct Dancing (do not wriggle shoulders; do not shake hips; do not twist body; do not flounce elbows; do not pump arms; do not hop - glide instead; avoid low fantastic and acrobatic dips) and a Victor record discography keyed to each dance (Castle House orchestra exclusive Victor releases including 'The International Rag', 'Maurice Hesitation Waltz', 'Maurice Tango', 'Argentine Tango', 'Brazilian Dreams Tango Argentine'). Distinct from the Harper & Brothers 'Modern Dancing' Castle book of the same year (LOC-1914-CASTLE / CASTLE-1914) - this is the Castles' record-merchandising pamphlet rather than their literary treatise. From the Richard Powers collection (3_Modern_Dances). The Castle/Victor Talking Machine Co. partnership is the earliest US dance-records-with-instruction format and establishes the dance-record-pamphlet publication pattern later adopted by Columbia Graphophone (POWERS-1914-HEPWIL / G. Hepburn Wilson 1914), Mentel Bros. (POWERS-1914-MENTEL series), and Feldman & Co. (POWERS-1919-FELDMAN-OS, FT).Year: 1914Family: castle-victorCatalog: local
Dance manual/reference by Victor Talking Machine Co., Camden, New Jersey, 1914. Vernon Castle's announcement March 2, 1914 endorsing Victrola and Victor Records as the exclusive recordings used at Castle House (NYC). 32-page primer with photographs by Hill's Studio (NY) of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Castle dancing 13 named figures: ONE-STEP (Castle Walk; Pony Step; Reverse Dip Step; Get-Over Step; Cross Eight Swing); HESITATION WALTZ (basic Hesitation; Side Hesitation; Skating Dip Step; Hesitation Balance with Dip; Hesitation Walking Dip and Reverse); TANGO (Cortez Step; Seven Step; Media de Luna). Closes with Mr. & Mrs. Vernon Castle's Suggestions For Correct Dancing (do not wriggle shoulders; do not shake hips; do not twist body; do not flounce elbows; do not pump arms; do not hop - glide instead; avoid low fantastic and acrobatic dips) and a Victor record discography keyed to each dance (Castle House orchestra exclusive Victor releases including 'The International Rag', 'Maurice Hesitation Waltz', 'Maurice Tango', 'Argentine Tango', 'Brazilian Dreams Tango Argentine'). Distinct from the Harper & Brothers 'Modern Dancing' Castle book of the same year (LOC-1914-CASTLE / CASTLE-1914) - this is the Castles' record-merchandising pamphlet rather than their literary treatise. From the Richard Powers collection (3_Modern_Dances). The Castle/Victor Talking Machine Co. partnership is the earliest US dance-records-with-instruction format and establishes the dance-record-pamphlet publication pattern later adopted by Columbia Graphophone (POWERS-1914-HEPWIL / G. Hepburn Wilson 1914), Mentel Bros. (POWERS-1914-MENTEL series), and Feldman & Co. (POWERS-1919-FELDMAN-OS, FT). (1914). Imported from local collection.